NOTE: LaunchPad material that does not appear in the print book – including guided reading exercises, source feature quizzes, LearningCurve adaptive quizzes, summative quizzes, all of the documents from the companion reader – has been labeled on this table of contents as shown. Each chapter in LaunchPad also comes with a wealth of additional documents, videos, key terms flashcards, map quizzes, and much more, all of which can be easily integrated and assigned.

Document P1-4: THOMAS PHILLIPS, A Journal of a Voyage Made in the Hannibal (1693–1694)

Quiz for Document P1-4 LaunchPad

Document P1-5: RICHARD HAKLUYT, A Discourse of Western Planting (1584)

Quiz for Document P1-5 LaunchPad

1. Colliding Worlds, 1491–1600

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

The Native American Experience

The First Americans

American Empires

Chiefdoms and Confederacies

Patterns of Trade

Sacred Power

Western Europe: The Edge of the Old World

Hierarchy and Authority

Peasant Society

Expanding Trade Networks

Myths, Religions, and Holy Warriors

West and Central Africa: Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Empires, Kingdoms, and Ministates

Trans-Saharan and Coastal Trade

The Spirit World

Exploration and Conquest

Portuguese Expansion

The African Slave Trade

Sixteenth-Century Incursions

Chapter Review

LearningCurve LaunchPad

America in Global Context Altered Landscapes

Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian Colliding Cultures

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad

Interpretations How Connected Were Native American Communities Before 1492?

Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad

Analyzing Voices A Spanish Priest Criticizes His Fellow Colonists

Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

1. Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 1 LaunchPadDocument 1-1: THOMAS HARIOT, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588)

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Document 1-2: De Soto Encounters Incans in Peru ARTIST UNKNOWN (SPANISH SCHOOL), Construction of the First Christian Church in San Miguel de Piura, and the Battle of Hernando de Soto with the Indians (1726)

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Document 1-3: CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, Journal of the First Voyage (1492)

Quiz for Document 1-3 LaunchPad

Document 1-4: BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS, A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552)

Quiz for Document 1-4 LaunchPad

Document 1-5: COUNCIL OF HUEJOTZINGO, Letter to the King of Spain (1560)